a halt

基本解释

Fail-stop: A halting failure with some kind of notification to other components.
停止运行故障：与停机故障不同的是，这种故障发生的时候会通知其他组件。
In short, the best-case scenario for housing still seems to be a halting recovery.
简而言之，美国住房市场最可能的情况看来仍是磕磕绊绊的复苏。翩。
But just as China returns idiosyncratically to its own form of capitalism, so too the Bund is undergoing a halting facelift to revive it as a symbol of the city in the 21st century.
但正如中国以特有的方式推行其独树一帜的资本主义，外滩也正在以蹒跚的步履经受整容，使其在21世纪焕发新貌，继续作为上海的标志。

The exact cause is unknown. But in a recent study, an experimental drug showed signs of halting the disorder in laboratory mice.
A new drug is showing signs of halting the disorder and even un-doing its damaging effects.

All this is orchestrated by the director, Sam Raimi, with a halting, scattershot approach that verges on panic.
NEWYORKER: Spider-Man 3
When reform came, it was a halting process, and largely the result of the new economic and social realities of the expanding republic.
ECONOMIST: American democracy